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- Aug 29
- 4 min
To DIY or Not To DIY: The dangers of repairing your own foundation.
Foundation repair. To do it yourself or not to do it yourself. That is the question. Even us, every now and then, have posted about DIY...
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- Aug 17
- 6 min
PREVENTING WINTER DAMAGE TO THE FOUNDATION
If there is one constant for homeowners in our beloved state is that foundations just can’t quite catch a break; if it’s not the dry...
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- Jul 20
- 3 min
DRY SEASON: Taking Care of your Foundation
We can’t stop the rain season from coming, any more than we can stop the dry season either. But the one thing we can do is prepare for...
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- Jul 13
- 3 min
RAIN SEASON: Taking Care of your Foundation
Time and again we’ve spoken about seasonal weather changes; soil being too dry, soil being too moist, but the fact of the matter is most...
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- Jun 15
- 4 min
ROOTS AND PLUMBING
‘I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A...
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- Jun 1
- 5 min
BASEMENT ANATOMY
For the third post regarding the anatomies of foundations, we will be focusing in basemen foundations. Etymologically, the words basement...
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- May 18
- 3 min
SLAB ON GRADE ANATOMY
In today’s post we will continue on discussing the anatomy of the most common types of foundation for residential buildings. Leaving...
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- May 11
- 7 min
PIER AND BEAM ANATOMY
Previously we have touched upon the subject of the different, or to be more precise, the most common types of foundations. Back then, we...
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- May 3
- 4 min
House Settling
Previously, we’ve talked about foundation leveling and foundation repair and in doing so we mentioned the term House Settling once or...
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- Apr 6
- 5 min
Foundation Leveling VS Foundation Repair
By now it is more than likely that you are well familiarized with what a ‘Foundation Problem’ is. We have talked about it in the past and...
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- Mar 23
- 4 min
Soaker Hoses and how they Benefit your Foundation
What is a soaker hose and what are the benefits of using one? A soaker hose looks just like most garden hoses, but there is one...
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- Mar 9
- 3 min
‘DIY Repairing Wall Cracks’
Wall cracks. We’ve talked about them. They are one of the first signs of foundation damage. Admittedly however, there are times where...
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- Feb 20
- 5 min
So Long Foundation: the results of builder incompetence
DISCLAIMER: The words in italics are those of Mrs. Traci Peacock, reproduced verbatim from an interview conducted with her for this...
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- Feb 3
- 4 min
‘Foundation Maintenance’
Last time we talked about exercises in prevention and today we will build upon that. While it is pretty much impossible to do something...
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- Jan 20
- 4 min
‘DIY: Checking Your Soil Moisture Levels’
In the very first post on this blog we talked about soil behavior, which, long story short, is responsible for foundation damage to our...
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- Jan 5
- 3 min
‘How Do You Know If Your House Is Structurally Sound?’
Periodic check ups are an exercise in prevention. Ideally all of us should have the habit of undergoing periodical examinations in order...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 3 min
‘Crawling Back To You’(and the fine print in Pier and Beam Inspections)
Let’s be honest. Who hasn’t been unpleasantly surprised by those sneaky small words at the end of a document or contract? Generally...
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- Dec 1, 2022
- 5 min
‘Shiver me Timber (Framings)!’
There are two essential components to having a strong, durable house. The first one is having a good foundation. The second one is having...
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- Nov 17, 2022
- 4 min
The Case of the Never-ending Sequels.
Unfortunately the cases of sequels after sequels, also called ‘sequelitis’, is not a phenomena exclusive to Hollywood. Previously, as we...
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